# Sep Kamvar

> Sep Kamvar is a seed investor at Stanford University (New York) backing Internet and Software. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Stanford University](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stanford-university)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Aug 2022
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://kamvar.org

Sep Kamvar is a consulting professor of Computational Mathematics at Stanford University. His research focuses on social computing and information management. From 2003 to 2007, Sep was the engineering lead of personalization at Google. Prior to Google, he was co-founder and CEO of Kaltix, a personalized search company that was acquired byGoogle in 2003. Sep is the author of two books and over 40 technical publications and patents in the fields of search and social computing. He is on the technical advisory boards of several companies, including Etsy, NextBio, and SimplyHired. His artwork has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the National Museum of Contempary Art in Athens.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $950k–$2.4M |
| Pre-Seed | $190k–$900k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 2 | 33% |
| Software | 2 | 33% |
| Blockchain | 2 | 33% |
| Peer to Peer | 2 | 33% |
| iOS | 1 | 17% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 50% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 67% |
| Colombia | 2 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Contribution Labs, Inc. | Contribution Labs, Inc. (dba Megaphone) builds a SaaS platform that lets consumer‑facing Web3 brands design, launch, and measure token‑based marketing programs—airdrop claims, quests, and referral incentives—without writing smart‑contract code. The tools combine off‑chain campaign analytics with on‑chain distribution rails so marketers can targethigher‑quality wallets and reward them with branded digital assets. The company today supports a roster of early‑adopter enterprises including Coinbase, Forbes, Optimism, Alchemy, Farcaster, and more. | $2.4M | Seed | Aug 30, 2022 |  |
| Simpol | We make Simpol to everyone in LATAM buy, hold and sell stable coins and access to DeFi benefits to get better yielding than traditional financial system. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Oct 10, 2021 |  |
| Shalder | Shalder is a flexible work community, allowing businesses across LATAM access the workforce they need, on-demand, to achieve their business goals. No bidding, prize competition, powered by IA. | $190K | Pre-Seed | Mar 10, 2021 |  |
| Veracity | Veracity creates a personal skincare experience based on real data about your hormones and biofactors through our Skin + Health test. | $900K | Pre-Seed | Jul 01, 2020 |  |
| Postcard Cabins | Getaway is a wellness hospitality company that offers cabin rentals in natural landscapes.The company's experiences are more than the beautiful tiny house nestled in the woods—it’s about disconnecting and living in the present moment. It’s about learning to live without your cell phone (pack it away in our phone lockboxes) and rediscoveringthe art of a good conversation. It’s about tuning out the endless noise of society today and listening to the great outdoors. Getaway's mission is to offer an experience worth coming straight back to: deep and simple enough to help you find yourself, revel in nature, and rekindle the connections most important to you. We’ll provide the basics; the rest is up to you.Outposts are located within about a two-hour drive of major metro cities—far enough to disconnect but close enough for a spontaneous escape. Getaway currently operates three outposts outside New York, Boston and Washington, DC. | $950K | Seed | Mar 01, 2015 |  |
| Eve | Eve is an Excel-like web application that lets anyone build software by drawing the interface and then filling in the logic that powers it by dragging around boxes of data. To share these apps, users will only have to give others a link to a hosted web application. Behind the scenes, it’ll be able to connect to services that offer APIs, soapplications built on Eve will be able to integrate with things like Facebook, Twitter, or Google Maps like an application built in a “real” coding environment. When Eve debuts in early 2015, Granger says it will enable “a normal person to be able to make a site that’s as complex as a Kickstarter.” | $2.3M | Seed | Oct 01, 2014 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Alchemy](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alchemy-insights) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Fueled](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fueled) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Great Oaks Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/great-oaks-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [L Catterton](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lcatterton) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Meridian Street Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/meridian-street-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Rough Draft Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rough-draft-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Stanford University

VC Fund · Stanford, United States

Stanford University is a teaching and research university that focuses on graduate programs in law, medicine, education, and business. Few colleges can match the breadth, excellence, and prestige of Stanford’s academics, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The university is organized into seven schools: Business, Earth Sciences,Education, Engineering, Humanities and Sciences, Law, and Medicine Student life at Stanford is quite active, due in part to the 11,000+ students living on campus. Art is a strong presence at Stanford, fostered by Stanford Lively Arts, the Cantor Center for Visual Arts, and numerous student clubs and organizations. Stanford also features extensive athletic programs, including more than 35 varsity sports and about 20 clubs sports. In order to maintain its high standards, Stanford University has extremely selective admissions. The university admits undergraduates based on a combination of academic achievement, intellectual curiosity, and personal experience. Graduate admissions criteria and application procedures vary based on the program of study. Undergraduates at Stanford have access to a variety of financial aid opportunities, including institutional scholarships, grants from the government, and student employment. Graduate students can receive financial aid through fellowships and grants, but funding is typically not available for master’s students.

5 contacts available at Stanford University.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Audrey Maclean | Consulting Associate Professor, School of Eng. | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/audrey-maclean |
| Badr Al-Rumaih | Graduate Research Assistant, Stanford Wave Physics Lab | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/badr-al-rumaih |
| Carolyn Bertozzi | Professor of chemistry | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carolyn-bertozzi |
| Christopher Field | Perry L. McCarty Director, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christopher-field-eb2e |
| Chuck Eesley | Associate Professor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chuck-eesley |

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## FAQ

### What does Sep Kamvar invest in?

Sep Kamvar invests primarily in Internet, Software and Blockchain startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Sep Kamvar's check size?

Sep Kamvar typically joins rounds of $950k–$2.4M at Seed and $190k–$900k at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Sep Kamvar participates in.

### When did Sep Kamvar last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sep Kamvar closed in Aug 2022. Shizune tracks 6 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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